Tag Archives: Wear OS

Wear OS is struggling — big time. It is no secret that Google’s wearable OS has been through a lot of changes in recent years and even with all those changes they are yet to finalise on a fluent, usable OS. Now developers are beginning to question why they are …

According to Canalys smartwatch sales in North America have increased by 38 percent over the last 12 months but worryingly Wear OS continues to trail everyone. Market research company Canalys have conducted research on the world’s more valuable wearable market — the North American market. In Q2 2019 shipments were …

Living in Australia is awesome, unless you want a decent broadband connection or the latest in technology. It seems Fossil would like to fix one of those problems. Speaking with Fossil Australia, they have confirmed that in addition to their new Generation 5 Wear OS smartwatch already being available online …

We’ve been tracking the rumours, leaks and teases for Mobvoi’s latest Wear OS smartwatch for a few weeks now, partly because we really like Mobvoi and where they’re headed, and because we really want there to be great Wear OS devices, and soon. Today’s overnight announcement of the TicWatch Pro …

Qualcomm may finally be developing a processor for the wearables market. Oh, yes you’re right – they’ve done this before, but the results weren’t so great. Since the dawn of Android Wear we have seen very few processors dedicated to smartwatches, with the original Wear 2100 and year’s Wear 3100 …

Yesterday Google announced their new feature to help improve their flailing wearable operating system — Tiles. Just a day later and it seems that Google have switching on the server-side switch for some users. Users on the WearOS subreddit have been reporting that they are seeing the new feature on …

Just last week we were lamenting the current state of Wear OS, and today Google has unveiled the next incremental swipe forward for their beleaguered wearable OS — meet Tiles. Rumoured late last week as a potential replacement for complications, Tiles instead essentially replaces the swipe right option currently used …

Yes, I know. At least half of the people who read this will be able to list the reasons they don’t want a smartwatch, a Wear OS device, or don’t even wear a watch. Some of us, though, are interested in smartwatches and some of us would like a truly …

Fossil has announced launch details of their new and upcoming smartwatches today in Sydney. The group handles watches (both smart and traditional) for a number of fashion brands like Diesel, Misfit, A|X, Skagen and more. The new watches form part of the Spring/Summer range (sorry, it’s all based on northern …

Google’s Wear OS is seemingly very stagnant at the moment but Google of course are hard at work improving it for all users. Today they have begun rolling out an update to Wear OS bringing it up to version 2.3. Several Wear OS smartwatches have today started receiving the new …

Google’s Wear OS seems to be stagnant with most people seemingly waiting for that magic silver bullet that will fix everything. Google has not given up on the fledgling OS and has signalled that with the purchase of wearable technology from Fossil. Fossil Group have today announced that they are …

At IFA this year we traversed the halls in search of Wear OS news and devices. Many people, myself included, have been critical of Google’s stewardship of the platform with a slow development cycle, the painfully slowness of hardware rollouts eg NFC payments, digital crown adoption and 3 button control …

To say Wear OS has stagnated is definitely an understatement with very few new, decent smartwatches hitting the market. Many have blamed the stagnation on the fact that the chipset has not been updated in over two years thereby limiting options for manufacturers. In some (more) good news today Google …